Initiative Type: Infrastructures
BeleĢm Statement Area: Ocean Observation
Initiative Location: Belgium,Denmark,France,Germany,Greece,Ireland,Italy,Netherlands,Portugal,Spain
Time Frame: 1991-Ongoing
Description:
The European Directory of Marine Environmental Data Sets (EDMED) is a comprehensive reference to the marine data sets and collections held within European research laboratories, so as to provide marine scientists, engineers and policy makers with a simple mechanism for their identification. It covers a wide range of disciplines including marine meteorology; physical, chemical and biological oceanography; sedimentology; marine biology and fisheries; environmental quality; coastal and estuarine studies; marine geology and geophysics; etc. Data sets are described in EDMED irrespective of their format (e.g. digital databases or files, analogue records, paper charts, hard-copy tabulations, photographs and videos, geological samples, biological specimens etc). Currently, EDMED describes more than 4.000 data sets, held at over 700 Data Holding Centres across Europe.
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This website is developed by the AANChOR Coordination and Support Action, aimed to support the implementation of the Belém Statement, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 818395.